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Fundamentals of oral communications (FOC)
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Question 1

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We currently live and operate in the ___________ Age, which is quickly replacing the _____________ Age.
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  • Communiction; information
  • Information; Computer
  • Information; Communication
  • Communication; Industrial

Question 2

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People for whom technologies already existed when they were born are referred to as
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  • Millennials.
  • Virtual pioneers.
  • Digital natives.
  • Technologists

Question 3

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The age in which communication, technology, and media converge deeply permeate a citizens daily life is known as the
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  • Information Age.
  • Convergence Age.
  • Industrial Age.
  • Communication Age.

Question 4

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People who have adopted and learned digital technologies later in life are known as
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  • Digital immigrants
  • Digital natives
  • Digital citizens
  • Digital emigrants

Question 5

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An already popular format for games and other forms of entertainment is called _____ and is a blend of physical and virtual realities
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  • augmented reality
  • heightened reality
  • mobile reality
  • synthesized reality

Question 6

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Which of the following was not listed as a benefit of studying communication?
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  • Physical, emotional, and psychological health and well-being.
  • Help in finding employment and advancing in your career.
  • Increased potential to bring about better social realities.
  • Less active role in democratic citizenship.

Question 7

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What is the definition of communication?
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  • The verbal or nonverbal unidirectional exchange of information.
  • The sharing of ideas through oral or written reciprocal exchange.
  • The collaborative process of using messages to create and participate in social reality.
  • The process of creating and transmitting messages.

Question 8

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Which of the following does not accurately describe communication?
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  • Communication is collaborative.
  • Communication is a process.
  • Communication is static.
  • Communication is participatory.

Question 9

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The set of social judgments that members of a group agree upon is the definition of which of the following terms?
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  • Social reality
  • Social exchange
  • Social agreement
  • Social construction

Question 10

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Communication is a “we” activity in which people work jointly to create and share meaning. This best demonstrates that communication _____.
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  • is a process
  • is collaborative
  • involves messages
  • is a thing

Question 11

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Being labeled a “loser” may alter a person's perceptions and reinforce self-destructive behaviors, taking part in shaping their social reality. This best demonstrates that communication _____.
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  • is collaborative
  • involves messages
  • is creative
  • is participatory

Question 12

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The ancient Greeks referred to the ways that communication can be used as an instrument to accomplish things as _____ and the ways that communication creates things as _____.
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  • poiesis; praxis
  • pathos; poiesis
  • praxis; poiesis
  • protos; praxis

Question 13

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If Bethany calls her mother on the phone and shares her day's experience, this an example of which type of communication context?
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  • Face-to-face
  • Mediated
  • Distance
  • Cognitive

Question 14

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Which of the following situations is an example of interpersonal communication?
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  • Mary gives a presentation to a large meeting.
  • Simon listens to a radio show about his favorite hip-hop group.
  • Liz responds to a friend's Facebook status.
  • James talks to himself while he goes grocery shopping.

Question 15

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Complex computer data-mining operations use all of your online activities (ranging from site visits, to purchase histories, to group memberships) to compile highly specific profiles of you that advertisers can use to customize, or _____, their advertisements to you.
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  • broadcast
  • narrowcast
  • personalize
  • target

Question 16

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Which communication metaphor describes communication as a linear, one-way transfer of information?
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  • Transmission
  • Interaction
  • Transacion
  • Constructivism

Question 17

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In the transactional model of communication, every message has two dimensions: _____, or its surface level meaning; and _____, or how a message is said.
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  • content; delivery
  • primary purpose; secondary purpose
  • content; relationship
  • construct; meaning

Question 18

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Which model of communication expands the role of communicators beyond sender-receivers to joint creators of social reality
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  • Interaction
  • Transaction
  • Constructivism
  • Social Constructionism

Question 19

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According to the communication philosopher and ethicist Jürgen Habermas, ethical communication is that which promotes _____ and _____.
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  • dependence; freedom
  • autonomy; responsibility
  • freedom; exemption
  • groupthink; empowerment

Question 20

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Viewing communication as a process of social construction requires an appreciation of both _____ (the power and freedom to use communication to create the social realities we desire) and _____ (the limitations inherent in our social realities).
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  • agency; constraint
  • democracy; law
  • possibility; danger
  • voice; control

Question 21

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Communication activism is known as the direct energetic action that is not in support of needed social change for individuals.
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  • True
  • False

Question 22

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Mediated communication is defined as a communication or messages that are transmitted through some type of medium.
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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Public communication is defined as a situation in which a person delivers a message to an audience.
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  • True
  • False

Question 24

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According to employers, communication skills are the most valuable abilities employees can possess
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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Communication as Transmission is one of the newest models of communication based on the workings of the cell phone and the computer.
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  • True
  • False

Question 26

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The fact that communication involves both creation and participation demonstrates that it is fundamentally dual-natured.
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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Small groups are traditionally defined as groups having between 2 and 10 members.
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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According to the constructivist perspective, communication is both a shaper of our individual understandings and shaped by those understandings
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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Engagement refers to the power of communication to link and relate us to people, groups, communities, social institutions, and cultures.
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  • True
  • False

Question 30

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One of the ways we can harness the power of communication for the greater good is by engaging in communication activism, or the direct energetic action in support of needed social change for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities.
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  • True
  • False
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